My Darling Detective
แแแ . 2017 ยท HarperCollins
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โ[An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time.โ โ New York Times Book Review
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A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman
Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector,ย looks up from his seat at an auctionโhis mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library,ย is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of ink at master photographer Robert Capaโs Death on a Leipzig Balcony. Jacobโs police detectiveย fiancรฉe is assigned to the ensuing interrogation.
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย My Darling Detective deliversย a fond nod to classic noir, asย Jacobโs understanding of the man he hasย always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a police officer suspected of murdering two Jewish residents during an upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945.ย Theย denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency deliveryโitโs the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax library in a three decadesโis Howard Norman at his uncannily moving best.
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โNorman works with an offhand ease and grace . . . Whimsy is balanced by moments of powerfully evoked realism.โ โ Washington Post
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โAn unconventional, lively literary mystery.โ โ Kirkus Reviews
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A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman
Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector,ย looks up from his seat at an auctionโhis mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library,ย is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of ink at master photographer Robert Capaโs Death on a Leipzig Balcony. Jacobโs police detectiveย fiancรฉe is assigned to the ensuing interrogation.
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย My Darling Detective deliversย a fond nod to classic noir, asย Jacobโs understanding of the man he hasย always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a police officer suspected of murdering two Jewish residents during an upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945.ย Theย denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency deliveryโitโs the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax library in a three decadesโis Howard Norman at his uncannily moving best.
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โNorman works with an offhand ease and grace . . . Whimsy is balanced by moments of powerfully evoked realism.โ โ Washington Post
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โAn unconventional, lively literary mystery.โ โ Kirkus Reviews
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HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist were both nominated for National Book Awards. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, What Is Left the Daughter,Next Life Might Be Kinder, and My Darling Detective. He divides his time between East Calais, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
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